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Ronald Koeman discussion

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Oh i'm not saying we'll be overtaken as such, just pointing out that the poster was correct in saying that a prolonged run of poor form basically precludes you from a top 4 challenge.

I'm not quite as confident as some that we will definitely hold on to 7th though. We'll definitely be playing at least 9 more games than we did last year, hopefully more like 15-20 more. It wouldn't surprise me if that takes a toll on us, and if Baines or Keane for example were to pick up an injury, I think we start to look very vulnerable indeed.


I find this complacency bizarre.

There is no way we are nailed on to hold on to last year's finishing position.

Especially if we continue to struggle to score goals at home because our away form sure ain't going to stand us in decent stead....unless there is a complete turn around in that which we have seen on the road since January.
 
I find this complacency bizarre.

There is no way we are nailed on to hold on to last year's finishing position.

Especially if we continue to struggle to score goals at home because our away form sure ain't going to stand us in decent stead....unless there is a complete turn around in that which we have seen on the road since January.

Funny how people think we can't possibly finish below 7th. West Ham and Southampton fans probably thought similar last season.
 

I think we need to let Koeman do his thing for the rest of the year. Work a few hours a week, alienate players and destroy as many relationships as he can as we stagger to a top 12 finish. Hand him his marching orders just before our opening fixture next year. The feeling among the players will be that of getting an unexpected early release from prison in which all your possessions are returned to you, including the mountain of cocaine you were imprisoned for smuggling. It will be on this wave of euphoria that we get to the final of next years' League Cup and lose a tight game to Southampton.
 
Let me try and explain.

Dozens of people have commented on this but still people like your good self, in the absence of owt else to say, take it upon themselves to insult them as point this fact out.......it is not the paltry points total that people are "bedwetting" about.

It is the rudderless, toothless, passionless nature of the performances.

Only someone whom indeed had turned into a "deluded Kopite" would be happy with that and think it is swell.......nowt to worry about chaps, sure they are only those matches we have no chance of winning, so let's keep the score down at OT on Sunday and the season really starts against Bournemouth because that is our level....COYBB :dance:

But it's all good.....it'll be our year next season :celebrate:

That is the happy clappy way you and others are excusing these craven performances.

What is a genuine cause for "bedwetting" is the fact you seem to take pride in being among a group of people whom were writing off the City, Chelsea and Spurs games for a total of one point, maximum, before a ball was kicked.

Thankfully some of us still maintain enough pride in EFC to think we might have done a wee bit better in those games but even if we did not, at least the lads put up a fight.

;)

 

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I'd almost like Unsworth because I know he'd trust the youth we have and wouldn't try these bizarre lineups every game. Koeman doesn't seem to make changes until he is forced into them... which is only a slight improvement over Bobcat.
 
Horrendous example really, seeing as they didn't have a bad start.

They'd only dropped 8 points by the halfway stage of the season, we'll have to go on a 15 game winning streak starting sunday if we want to match that.
But they had dropped 8 points by the end of Sept IIRC
Draw at Swansea and the lost to the RS and Arsenal in quick succession
Conte changed to 3 at the back after that.
 

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